On Tue, 27 Jan 2009, Timo Aaltonen wrote:

>
>       Hi
>
>   Ubuntu Jaunty began suffering from periodic freezes when switching the
> desktop (in compiz) or doing some other graphically intensive tasks. It
> started with the new kernel that got these patches:
>
>   * drm/i915: Don't double-unpin buffers if we take a signal in
>   * drm/i915: Don't complain when interrupted while pinning in execbuffers.
>   * drm/i915: Don't allow objects to get bound while VT switched.
>   * drm/i915: set vblank enabled flag correctly across IRQ
>   * drm/i915: don't enable vblanks on disabled pipes
>
> And I suspect it's the vblank patches that broke it, see this comment:
>
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/320813/comments/4
>
> this is also reported on b.fd.o, but likely the wrong component:
>
> https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=19676
>
> This is when using EXA. UXA has it's own problems; X crashes when resuming
> from suspend..
>
> I can myself reproduce it reliably after a suspend/resume cycle.
> Would be delighted to see this fixed soon :)
>
>
> ps. mesa is 7.3rc3 + 194d039

sigh, apparently the old kernel without those patches is affected as well. 
So it's something in mesa and/or intel ddx then..

t

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